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A congressional drafting error and clunky phrase is putting a second of President Barack Obama's signature endeavors in jeopardy. This time it's climate change.
Matthew Dowd, a lawyer representing a Maryland couple who plans to sue Montgomery County after their children were seized from a park by police and taken into Child Protective Services for six hours. The couple practices "free-range parenting" and allows their children, ages 10 and 6, to walk around and play outside by themselves.
Democratic senators wanted a four-year extension but ultimately joined most Republicans in voting for a wider package that also reforms Medicare.
Gov. Doug Ducey on Tuesday vetoed legislation which would have made the sale and use of the new product illegal in the state.
Bush vowed Tuesday that he would not criticize his "friend," the Florida Senator.
A new report examines the ways in which struggling cities mismanage federal grants and offers ideas for fixing it.
Amount Chicago proposes paying dozens of torture victims connected to former Police Commander Jon Burge and his so-called midnight crew of rogue detectives, who solved murder, rape and arson cases by torturing suspects into confessing.
Residents of Pickett County, Tenn., who are worried about climate change, which is the lowest percent of any U.S. county. Washington, D.C., residents are the most worried (74 percent), compared to 52 percent nationwide.
Many departments have been using them for decades, and the technology for some recently improved.
A Missouri inmate was executed Tuesday night for killing a man in a fit of rage over child support payments 16 years ago.
A new audit recommends that Missouri refund more than $34 million to the federal government because the state did not comply with Medicaid regulations.
Nicole Galloway, a certified public accountant and the Democratic county treasurer in Boone County, was tapped by Gov. Jay Nixon on Tuesday to replace the late Tom Schweich as state auditor.
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie spent his first day in New Hampshire pitching overhauls to Social Security and federal health care, visiting a pizzeria and courting Republicans during what appeared to be a campaign trip in all but name.
The longest criminal trial in Georgia history ended Tuesday with two former educators admitting guilt in the nation's largest test-cheating conspiracy and eight others proclaiming innocence as a judge ordered them to prison.
New Orleans is using data analytics to get smoke alarms into the buildings that need them the most.
The D.C. Council on Tuesday rejected a controversial health-care contract proposed for the city’s jail after weeks of fierce arguments and heavy lobbying by supporters and opponents.
Voters in a wealthy suburb of St. Louis rejected tax increases to fund schools last week.
House Bill 1283 lost the support of its original advocates after the Senate amended it to prohibit students from skipping the ACT, work assessments or any test required to graduate or pass a certain grade level.
Charlie Baker's sweeping directive alarms advocates for labor and the environment.
By moving to wealthier areas, hospitals can reduce the percent of uninsured and lower-paying Medicaid patients, while increasing the proportion of privately insured patients.
The head of the Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division Special Litigation Section said two weeks ago that the city had stopped responding to phone calls and emails about an excessive force investigation.
Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, after the legislative session ended in a standoff because the General Assembly refused to fund some of his budget requests. This is in contrast to the beginning of the session, when the Republican governor and the Democrat-controlled legislature pledged to compromise.
View state health data depicting disparities among children
Holly Leonard has been homeless on and off for years. There was a stint in jail and, more recently, a period in a women’s homeless shelter, while her husband slept in their car.
Indiana's economic development and tourism agencies announced Monday they have hired global PR firm Porter Novelli to help rebuild the state's image in the wake of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act debacle.
President Barack Obama is crossing South Dakota off his list.
A cadre of wealthy liberal donors aims to pour tens of millions of dollars into rebuilding the left’s political might in the states, racing to catch up with a decades-old conservative effort that has reshaped statehouses across the country.
A volunteer Oklahoma sheriff's deputy was charged with manslaughter Monday after prosecutors said he was negligent for shooting an unarmed suspect with a gun instead of a Taser during an arrest.
Ten former Atlanta educators convicted of racketeering in a test cheating scandal have been given an evening to make a life-changing decision: apologize for their crimes and waive a right to appeal or go to jail.
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